On Thu, Mar 19, 2015 at 5:38 PM, Chris Barker <[email protected]> wrote:

> My use case at the moment is trying to build conda packages from other
> peoples' Python packages - if they use setup_requires, etc, then I'm stuck
> with it.


​Worth considering​, if you can afford it, to have a local patch that you
apply before building. Then you have all the necessary fixes (like remove
the setup_requires) in that patch file.

This is a popular approach in Debian packages - they can have all kinds of
fixes for the upstream code.



Thanks,
-- Ionel Cristian Mărieș, http://blog.ionelmc.ro
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